Gale Whittington was born male February 6, 1948, in Holyoke, Colorado. His father was a fundamentalist Nazarene preacher with a Christian radio program, his mother, a gospel-recording
artist. After two-years fighting for gay rights on the streets of San Francisco 1968-1969, (months before the Stonewall uprising--to be documented in his memoir, Beyond Tolerance, The Birth of Gay Pride, when a publisher finally snatches up the manuscript), Gale worked long, hard hours operating a Denver pet store/bird breeding facility, which he owned for a whopping twenty-eight years.

Two long-term lovers have annoyed the man, one for five years, the latter for eighteen. Gale drove them both insane and the relationships ended in ТdivorceУ once they got well and came to their senses. Subsequently, Gale has been looking for love in some pretty scary places. Like in prison. Read all about it in his first book, The Happy Campers (to be e-published by Torquere Press, Nov. 2005), a semi-autobiographical novel about murder, mystery, and romance in the
Texarkana Federal Prison Camp.